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Associate Community Representative Tim Frazier better known as "Trikslyr" has announced that he's leaving Blizzard to pursue his caster career. So far he's doing a tremendous job at HGC and yesterday's game between Misfits and Fnatic was a good example!

The first announcement was made some time ago on reddit.

Trikslyr

Taking the casting position was a contracted position, not a position posted as a Blizzard employee. So, long story short, I'm no longer a Blizzard employee, thus no flair.

But, I get to cast and be a part of HGC and work side by side with Blizzard! Pretty exciting.

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Log in between March 6 and April 3 in StarCraft II to receive special UI skins for each race, a Portrait and Decal.

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